I can remember almost all of these. I hated Sierra or El Capitan (I cannot remember which it was now) because it crashed one of my MacBooks. Recently though, updates have been painless.
I have been using Macintosh for a long time. Apple left South Africa during apartheid and never managed to get a foothold in the market when they returned after apartheid fell. South Africa is a largely PC country and even the iPhone never managed to knock Blackberry off its perch as top dog. Sweden on the other embraced Apple Macintosh for years. The iPhone is almost ubiquitous although the Samsung customer base is growing rapidly now that Apple is not as groundbreaking as it used to be.
I started using Macs early because I worked in journalism and Apple Macintosh was the best at graphics. I trained as a journalist and then taught journalism. I was also, for my sins, the computer person at the school of Journalism and Media studies. At the time the university at which I worked had the only Bachelor of Journalism degree in the whole country. We had some donated Macs for desktop publishing and some Avid video editing suites which ran on Macs.
In those days Macs would not talk to PCs at ALL. You could not share files. The systems and interface were totally different. Because Apple had left South Africa there were no suppliers, no spare parts, and there was absolutely no support. I battled. I hated the damn things. I longed to just use a PC. But I had no choice because all the best dtp and graphics software was created only for Macintosh.
Now I still have the entire Mac ecosystem and I love the fact that everything just works with no fuss, and everything just talks to each other. My MacBooks run and run forever. My clients tend to have PCs for work and use Macs at home but nowadays it is no problem to switch between the two.
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